Attending a Webinar!

This week for our webinar assignment, I chose to attend a different webinar than the choices listed.  I think that the webinars listed are great and probably very useful, but I wanted to find a webinar that was useful and applicable to my area expertise. I googled and found a link to a great site that I knew about awhile back, but honestly forgot about! Reading Rockets! This is a great literacy website that is affiliated with University of Virginia and The Curry School of Education. They have resources, author interviews, webinars, and so much more. One of the things that I love is that lots of UVA professors, many of them authors, contribute and lead the Webinars.  Marcia Invernizzi, one of the co-authors of Words Their Way (nationally known word study curriculum) and Carol Ann Tomlinson,  the guru of Differentiated Instruction are both contributors to the webinars on this site.

I chose to participate in the Differentiated Reading Instruction webinar. I feel that this is an area as a teacher that I can always improve in, and want to know more ways to reach my students. Carol Ann Tomlinson was a participant in the webinar that I attended. She provided some excellent strategies on how to level and adjust reading groups and reading instruction to meet the needs of all learners in class. I thought that this was an excellent webinar, and was glad that I re-foudn the site!